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June 21, 2007

Our New Home Page: There's No Place Like It

We've talked quite a bit lately about all the great stuff inside Ask3D. Now we're going to take a look at its outside, i.e. our home page.

Yep, we've got a whole new look, with new icons painstakingly designed to represent the various Ask.com search tools.

And there's plenty of function that goes with it, like search suggestions that automatically reveal themselves as you type.

And check this out: you can re-skin your Ask.com home page whenever you feel like it. Here are a few of the options you can choose from:

Of course, once you get past this page, you'll get our three-panel results page, our various in-line content functions , and all the other great new Ask3D features. Check 'em out!

Ken Grobe
Product Content Manager
Ask.com

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Comments

I liked Timber Brume best. It does not interfere with the search interface too much, and it is pretty nice to look at.

Will it be possible to use costume search desktop backgrounds? I think that would be great.

I have to reload the entire page when changing skins in Opera 9.21 (32bit) on KUbuntu Linux 7.04 (64bit) to see the changes. Possibly a bug?

Posted by: Daniel Aleksandersen | Jun 21, 2007 4:23:57 PM

Ask is becoming the BEAUTIFUL Search engine!

Posted by: SearchEngines Web | Jun 22, 2007 3:38:49 AM

I get a completely different page when I enter ask.com in Germany. It's annoying how I always click to "Ask.com USA" and the next time I enter "ask.com", it will have already forgotten my setting (which I already provide via my browser settings, which are set to English). Wish you could do it as smart as Google, which acknowledge both the content negotiation protocol, and auto-saves my last clicked country in a cookie.

Posted by: Philipp Lenssen | Jun 22, 2007 8:25:36 AM

love the icons and design work that's gone into this.

Posted by: Adam Audette | Jun 22, 2007 11:03:52 AM

I don't know if keeping everything *identical* and changing the *wallpaper* counts as "skinning" it.

Actually, I'm confident it doesn't. So, let's not get too excited about this "skinnable" page. It's a good idea, but you haven't actually implemented it yet.

And I really don't like your 3-column page. Setting up some "skinnable" elements serving as various dividers might help it out somewhat; at the moment, the main page and left-hand bar both look like AdSense ads. It's off-putting.

Posted by: James Stein | Jun 23, 2007 8:15:50 PM

Wow, you've really outdone yourselves... no really, how innovative! You make google look like a childs picture... no seriously. Really I mean it, why are you doughting my words, you know it's true. Ya'll are the original internet homepage gangsters... lolololololololololololololololololololololololololollolololololollol :)))))))))

Posted by: Steve | Jun 23, 2007 8:44:10 PM

So, if you click on one of the other boxes - city, images, etc., it takes you to a whole new page. seems to me that that breaks the metaphor. It should just change the little pointer to point to that instead of to the "Web" box.

I would like to be able to change the background without having to register... You could do it based on cookies, and I would be happy.

Posted by: Nick | Jun 23, 2007 9:45:12 PM

Someone at ask.com is a spud. Searching for Devo!

Posted by: Rich | Jun 23, 2007 10:02:54 PM

I don't like the way search results fade in. Though nice to look at, it just makes searching arbitrarily slower. Shouldn't there be an option to turn this feature off? I honestly would use ask more if this was the case.

Posted by: spud | Jun 23, 2007 11:29:46 PM

The backgrounds are beautiful but wish I could use some of my Flickr favorites as the background. Any plans for that ?

Posted by: Amit Agarwal | Jun 24, 2007 12:15:17 AM

That is worth trying for a while.
Thanks

Posted by: Bashar | Jun 24, 2007 2:32:33 AM

Please get rid of the hideous gray border with the bad drop shadow. Everything else looks good.

Posted by: Shaun | Jun 24, 2007 6:57:49 AM

funny i did the quitr the same post as this. :D
btw the new appearance rocks!

Posted by: syahid ali | Jun 24, 2007 10:47:52 AM

They've lost me as a customer because of the design change. My default Ask Dictionary Word of the Day vanished. And I used them like a Yahoo page not a Google page. Who exactly is their competition. They just didn't get it.

Posted by: TheGreatUnknown | Jun 24, 2007 2:39:20 PM

The Funniest part is that they are trying to copy the simplicity of Google, ehm ehm, Microsoft take a damn hint!

Posted by: Free Nature Photography Wallpaper | Jun 24, 2007 11:16:32 PM

It's annoying how I always click to "Ask.com USA" and the next time I enter "ask.com"???
Nice job

Posted by: Adam Matt | Jun 25, 2007 4:16:08 AM

Design looks really good. When Ask.com announced the new design, I thought there will be just one version of it. Seems like you can choose from the selections. I am sure it would appeal to lots of people with different interests

Posted by: Song | Jun 25, 2007 12:45:03 PM

I really like it. It is totally more web 2.0. Thats good (y)

Posted by: Hot Trends | Jun 28, 2007 3:22:33 AM

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